Top Hacker News Book Recommendations in Engineering & Transportation (all time)

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Carbon: One Atom's Odyssey

John Barnett and Roald Hoffman

5 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Nothing Like It In the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869

Stephen E. Ambrose

4.6 on Amazon

5 HN comments

Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

Serhii Plokhy, Ralph Lister, et al.

4.7 on Amazon

5 HN comments

507 Mechanical Movements

Henry T. Brown

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Cosmic Serpent: DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

Jeremy Narby

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google

Scott Galloway, Jonathan Todd Ross, et al.

4.5 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Stone

William Hall

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Pure, White, and Deadly: How Sugar Is Killing Us and What We Can Do to Stop It

John Yudkin and Robert H. Lustig

4.7 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Jungle: A Photicular Book

Dan Kainen and Kathy Wollard

4.9 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Signals and Systems

Alan Oppenheim, Alan Willsky, et al.

4.1 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Radiant: Farm Animals Up Close and Personal (Farm Animal Photography Book)

Traer Scott

4.8 on Amazon

4 HN comments

Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

4.5 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Michio Kaku

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

John Rumble

4.6 on Amazon

3 HN comments

Kiss the Ground: How the Food You Eat Can Reverse Climate Change, Heal Your Body & Ultimately Save Our World

Josh Tickell and Terry Tamminen

4.8 on Amazon

3 HN comments

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RBerenguelonOct 6, 2010

I can't help but recommending Carbon Emacs. And probably someone else will come and recommend vim. I won't advocate more than needed, it is just awesome ;)

somberionApr 13, 2016

I could not recommend Carbon Copy Cloner enough. It makes your external hard disk bootable and verbatim has the same files as your mac. This is for Mac only. Think of a dd with a nice interface. Costs $40.

https://bombich.com/

moltaronApr 27, 2018

Carbon Copy Cloner is really good. It creates incremental and bootable copies.

I found TM painfully slow, and the file recover UI is just horrible.

gustafonOct 23, 2018

This is Gustaf from YC. I wrote the first Carbon Removal RFS.

Planting tree is actually a great carbon removal technology. Unfortunately most forest owners in the world don't know or don't have incentive to care the about the carbon impact the forest have on the climate. Biggest reason forests are taken down is to grow cattle for beef. If you are working on a startup to reverse this we'd like to fund it too

redactedonMay 16, 2014

Check out Carbon Copy Cloner [1] if you haven't already. It will create a bootable clone of your drive, with deltas and versions and all that good stuff. During fast-moving projects I usually clone daily. In the event of a drive failure I can simply reboot the Mac from the clone as if nothing happened, cloning back to new internal drive (or machine in case of theft).

[1] http://www.bombich.com/

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